I would love to learn those dead languages. I think they are very interesting. My one friend told me it was stupid to learn latin or Quenya beacuse no one speaks it. I told him there has to be at least on other person out there who speaks it.

Anyways it would be neat if we could learn all of them instantly. Imagine than we would be able to speak to everyone in the world with no problems.

... isn't English one of those? xD I mean, I live in Finland, and like HELL do I need that in a country where everyone basically talks Finnish or Swedish (or both, like me xD), but all the teachers always said "It's the only language you need out there!", so...

Not that I'm complaining. I rock at English :D

Update on my Japanese class; I rock at it too xD There's this SUPER cute guy, Miika, who "apparently" was adopted from Japan, and he's so nice and CUTE - did I mention he was cute, btw?

Ah, well.

I'm "supposed to" be engaged -.- *sulks*

Back to topic; I've come to the conclusion that Finnish and Swedish is useless. And stupid. You seriously have no use of it anywhere in the world... except Swedish, in Sweden - but even then, it's not the same; it's not always sure I understand them, and they understand me xD

Because they force us to learn it at an early age in case we become genius and invent some freakishly awesome technological thingy because Finland is known to have a high level education and technology stuff going on all the time.

Umm.. I guess you're right about English being an international language.. kinda. Makes me laugh when I hear how they want to make Spanish the official language for the U.S. Never gonna happen lol But yea lots of people have to learn English but it's always good to know your native language even if there's basically no one else who speaks it.

amortentia773Hufflepuff Head of House : CoMC & Mythology Professor : 5th Year

Yeah, the whole Spanish being offical in the US is ridiculous in my opinion. It's never gonna happen. xD

English is definitley the international language though...when I went to Europe over the summer people who spoke two different languages would speak English to communicate even though neither of them were native speakers.

My mom always said - when she just had hada fight with dad, of course - that English is a language of idiots, that's why they want the rest of the world to lower themselves on the level of America, and learn English so that America won't feel so stupid xD

Then I pointed out that they speak English in UK too, and she was all "But that's a nicer English!!!!"

I love my mom :D

I'm kinda proud now that Finland has two official languages, and that I master them both, plus that I'm rather fluent in English, even if I come up with my own words from time to time.

It's difficult to say what kind of English accent I have, since English is not my first language... I mean, I mostly write in British English (like colour, and neighbour), but I speak more like in American English. And in school, I learned both, since in first all the way to sixth grade our teacher used British English, and seventh to ninth grade, the English teacher used American English.

And then, when I went to the nurse school - that would be college in UK, vocational school in US - the teacher used British English, but "allowed" American English.

Don't get me even started on how the education system is built here, it will only confuse you xD

But American English comes more naturally to me, since I've always talked it with my dad... what with some of the words being Finnish or Swedish, if I get too carried away xD

What you probably have is the same accent as your classmates (school is a massive influence on how you speak), with a slightly more flat sound to your vowels to match your mother's accent. You could even change how you speak around your classmates, and then different again when you're speaking to your mum or your dad, it's a specific thing people do to match their environment with accents. I'm told that I probably do it with my grandmother, who has an accent.

Your mother's accent is probably slightly scottish too. Her accent could not be 100% the same as mine, after spending years in a different environment. Truth is, most people deviate from their own accent in their life, and effectively create their own dialect.

Ummm.. Perhaps. I found Queyna easier to learn than Spanish but of course I was taught differently for each. Also I know more words in Spanish than in Quenya but I know how to put words together better in Quenya than in Spanish. I still have lots to learn about Quenya though!